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Researchers in the department of kinesiology are seeking volunteers for a study investigating how exercise and footwear can impact individuals with knee osteoarthritis.
Participants must:
Have knee osteoarthritis
Be 50-80 years old
Have a BMI less than 35
Be able...

Computer science researchers Alexandra Meliou and Yuriy Brun at UMass Amherst have received a four-year, $1.05 million grant from the National Science Foundation to study how software systems can exhibit bias and how software engineers can develop fairer, more equitable systems.

Researchers in the department of kinesiology at UMass Amherst are seeking individuals between the ages of 61 and 85 to participate in a study to measure walking steps during treadmill exercise and during activities you perform in daily life.

During a two-day visit to campus this month, the executive director of the binational Indo-U.S. Science and Technology Forum gave a presentation to faculty of the Institute for Applied Life Sciences explaining the mutual benefits of Indo-U.S. collaborations. Rajiv Kumar Tayal was one of the governmental leaders who met with university officials and faculty during Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy’s visit to India in February.

Erik Learned-Miller, professor of computer science, recently received a four-year grant from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to support fundamental research that he says will be “especially open to creative approaches” in the quest to build “visual common...

Assistant professor of biostatistics Laura Balzer is the lead statistician on a cluster randomized trial designed to prevent and treat HIV and other health conditions in East African communities.
In a trial with more than 350,000 adults and children in rural Kenya and Uganda, the Sustainable...

A team of researchers including Yubing Sun of UMass Amherst has demonstrated that human pluripotent stem cells can be guided to become the precursors of the central nervous system, and that mechanical signals play a key role in this process. Sun and his colleagues outlined their findings in a recent paper published in the journal Nature Materials.

Catrine Tudor-Locke, professor of kinesiology and associate dean for research in the School of Public Health and Health Sciences, with members of her Physical Activity and Health Lab and others, is the first author of a new publication examining walking cadence as a reliable, consistent measure of...

Individuals are needed for a study of speech perception in aging being conducted by researchers in the Aging and Speech Perception Lab in the department of communication disorders.
Participants must be 18-29 or 45-64 years old, have no motor or neurological conditions that affect balance, and...